Tag: BITS system

The sequel to one of this site’s most popular posts BITS of Mörk Borg, CY_BORG brings the grimdark futile fantasy kicking and screaming into a dystopian cyberpunk future.

Recommended that you read the Borg post above – it covers concepts like what “OSR” means and will be referenced a few times in regards to mechanics, stats, and other concepts CB shares.

I will interject this way when I have something to say design-wise, a la some redesign or special consideration.

Regarding Notes

Without further ado, a mechanical look and critique of CY_BORG, a “nano-infested doomsday RPG about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate hell:”

1. Stats, Mechanics, and Resetting the World
2. Do It Again, This Time With Guns!
3. Friendship Is Magic 🌈
4. Pharma and Product
5. Paying For It
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7. PS: Another Way to Start a Campaign
8. PS: Never Too Late for a Wishlist
9. PS: Small Is Fast, Nimble

Stats, Mechanics, and Resetting the World

Same song, second verse as it comes to stats (numbers to add to various challenging rolls):

• Agility (moving, piloting, autofire [going all out])
• Presence (precision, Nano-magic-powers, society)
• Strength (pushing, pulling, throwing)
• Toughness (surviving the environment)

Notice that MB‘s Agility now controls the use of CY_BORG‘s automatic weapons (and in general going all out). Further, a fifth stat arrives: Knowledge, science, deduction, and the use of software and apps.

I praised Mork Borg for only using 4 stats that I then worked to cram into BITS’s 3. Adding Knowledge in CB rubs me the wrong way, so instead, I would use stats like:

Body (hitting, moving)
Sense (shooting, piloting)
Mind (science, software)
Will (charisma, nano-/bio-/exotic-magic)

Survival being a natural toughness using the highest-valued BSMW in the survival roll. Same survival consideration with a BITS conversion:

Body – Average Toughness and Strength stats
Insight – Agility, Knowledge
Thought – Presence, Knowledge

Or the work-in-process BMW:

Body – Agility, Strength
Mind – Presence, Knowledge
Will – Presence, Toughness

Putting 5 Stats into 4

As for basic mechanics, this game operates the same way: Roll a D20 at or above a target number, adding the applicable stat to it. (BITS 2D6 conversions over in the MB post and elsewhere.)

The end of the world functions similarly too: depending on how fast folks wish the game to implode, roll a die; on 1, a disquieting headline hits the news that harkens a crash of the system. At the 7th headline, everyone everywhere sees the message that the system will reboot in 12 hours, wiping away all the player progress, restarting the misery that festers in CB.

If the end comes quickly enough, as a Game Moderator, I would suggest adding some kind of ‘cache’ or ‘store’ to survive the reboot. Too small or too dangerous for a living thing to survive in, the cache – once recovered or built – allows player characters to leave behind resources and information about the nature of the world of CY_BORG, encouraging continued play in the world (and perhaps rewarding future players by what was left behind!).

Persisting the World

Do It Again, This Time With Guns!

MB introduced black-powder as a supplement. While powerful, they were expensive, finicky, and ultimately secondary to the spiked chain flails of the game.

Firearms in CB fit the sci fi vibes, being used just like any other weapon. The exceptionality of firearms is that they all have the chance of running out of ammo (done after a critical failure or a fight, though big things like rocket launchers may only fire once a fight), some attack multiple foes at a time (going all out), and can come with special abilities.

CY_BORG switches the kind of die to check for reloading (D6 for autofire from any time during a fight, D8 for single-shots only), with a 1-3 resulting in a reload required. I would amend for a D6-based system as so:

Roll D6 if ever checking to see if a reload is required.
Roll to check if a reload is required when: 1) end of an encounter where the weapon was used; 2) critical failure when using the weapon with a backpack-fed or large-mag ammo reserve; 3) use of suppression fire (shoot at everything and anything that moves).
Reload is required after: 1) use of a single-shot device [rocket launcher; larger missiles only after an encounter]; 2) critical fail when using a standard weapon and ammo reserve.
When rolling to check for a reload, a reload happens on a 2 or less.
Consider what happened after the most recent of either the last reload or the start of the encounter in which the weapon was used: +2 for backpack-fed weapons; +1 for large-mag weapons; -1 for autofire; -2 for white-hot barrel overkill onslaughts.

Reloading

Read more about my thoughts on reloading and resource management.

Friendship Is Magic 🌈

Wrong.

Nanotech, bio-mods, and exotic-McGuffins are magic 🔥🤘💀🤘🔥

A little more reliable than pure scroll magic from MB, “nano” are still overpowered abilities to wreak havoc on the game, balanced in part by how terribly they can go wrong. Their use also corrupts a person, playing into the trope that magic users are pariahs.

Regular tech – software, apps, drones, etc. – is pretty streamlined. Simple use is no difficulty, yet the opportunity is there to stress the systems at risk of burning the programs out. A fine middle-ground between physical equipment and reality-bending magics!

Pharma and Product

This game has super-drugs. They do terrible things to characters and can bloom into things much worse.

But drugs are a small part of the housing, food, gear, armory, armor, ammo, robots, vehicles, and more the core CY_BORG rulebook has to offer.

If a player wants their character to have it, something is going to sell it.

Paying For It

A fun aspect to get characters moving: be in debt at the start of the game to a random antagonist that wants their money.

Nothing comes for free – even a life. When dying, there is a chance emergency responders will get to the character in time. Rebuilt (sometimes) smarter, better, faster, the debt will pile on in a blink, keeping characters thirsty for more work and bigger and bigger scores.

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Mörk Borg is full of cool ideas. CY_BORG adds onto that in spades.

CB taught me a lot about certain game design topics that have been evident throughout the year. It continues to inspire as I play other roleplaying games and build better RPG experience systems.

With a trim here, a consolidation there, CB becomes a game fit for any table seeking to eek out a life in a techno-rich, quality-of-life-poor future. Pick up the rulebook for a bunch of details, killer visual aesthetic, or reference the base rules for free.

What are your impressions of the system? I am here to both commiserate and weigh-in on CY_BORG‘s approaches. Hit up the comments, follow every Friday below, and all cheers to your dreary dystopias ~

PS: Another Way to Start a Campaign

CY_BORG sets itself up with end-game powers and gadgets (ahem, “EndGame-Class Exosuit”).

That in mind, start the first session of a campaign using the famous Metroid video game method: Make ’em overpowered and then take it all away.

After character creation, give every player character double stats, free picks of any 4 items or powers, extra money, and put them in the final battle inside the 12-hour reboot window (or 6 hours, each real-world hour corresponding with an in-game hour). Give them some allies too. Pit the characters against the figurative big-bad Satan in Hell itself, yet even if they defeat the boss, the key to stopping the cycle of misery is broken or missing.

Reset the game, reroll character traits, and get after it!

Idea that strikes me: The allies can be abstract entities. Not actually present in the final battle, each yet has a personality, name, and specialty. Let the players kill a character of their choice in some ignominious sacrifice (with the chance they actually betray the party) that guarantees some effort for that player’s character in the fight. This may happen automatically before a player character is killed – the NPC intervenes just in time to take the bullet.

NPC Allies

PS: Never Too Late for a Wishlist

What I would like to see (or create) for the game that allow for all sorts of cyberpunk, dystopian foulness:

• Super Tanks that are moving, fighting dungeons (e.g. Bolos)
• Mechs of all shapes and sizes (e.g. Gundam, MechWarrior, Evangelion, Pacific Rim, etc.)
• Incarnations of the twin-headed Basilisk monsters (the prophet creatures from Mörk Borg)
• Cities besides the megapolis of Cy (e.g. Half Life‘s City 17, WH40K hives, Judge Dredd‘s Mega-City One, etc.)
• Space everything: void combat, space stations, orbital economies, getting up and down to orbit, Luna rules, everything
• Alien invasions and extraterrestrial encounters
• Merge the MB dark fantasy and as-of-yet-unexplored astropunk along with space fantasy with the cyberpunk aesthetic
• (In)Famous cyberpunks from: Blade Runner, Cyberpunk Netrunner, Neuromancer, Snowcrash, Akira, Deus Ex, Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix, Elysium, Tron, Robocop, Judge Dredd, Serial Experiments Lain, and so, so many more

PS: Small Is Fast, Nimble

For gear doing D4 or less in effect (i.e. Tier 1 and impromptu BITS weapons), allow a player to use Agility or other speed-based stat instead of Strength or body stat.

Sometimes the swiftest shiv outpaces the grandest maul.

We already talked at length about when and why and how to reload when things go wrong in RPGs.

This post takes a look at when the tools a fictional character uses runs out of gas / bullets / arrows / batteries / fuel / et. al. From single rounds to bottomless bins of bullets, the BITS system has it covered. Tiers are for reference only, but could be applied to a game’s economy for availability or cost:

Nothing New Under the Sun

Games are but levels of abstraction.

When it comes to kinds of expendable resource, abstraction needs to play a key role.

Video games do this excellently – at most, they tie ammo to a very small set of weapons (e.g. round X goes to weapon X), or abstract the kinds of available resource to the broad category of the tool.

‘Batteries’ or ‘power packs’ for flashlights and sci-fi gadgets alike, liquid ‘fuel’ for flamethrowers and cars, ‘shotgun shells’ for all gauges, ‘bullets’ for small arms, ‘artillery shells’ for tank main guns and recoilless rifles. Rockets, missiles, and torpedoes (I make this mega-missile category for the likes of cruise missiles). Grenades, charges, bombs.

Just as how ‘coin’ can be split into gold, silver, copper, and more, just as how ‘grain’ becomes wheat, maize, barley, and more, when it comes to deciding on resource types, do what feels right. Always seek to KISS, and things will go swell!

In This Economy?

A hierarchy of value exists in all things.

Resources apply the same way. While more thought needs to be put into this, a simple split would be:

• Sufficient Shot* – This is cheaper-than-cheap resource. Rocks for a sling, potatoes for cannons, grass for alternative fuels, or bullets in a bullet factory having a fire sale.
• Cheap Shot – Mundane fuel and resource that comes standard in both civilian and military use (context depending).
• Money Shot – High-value, high-impact ammunition. Jet fuel, missiles, you get it.
• Such Shot – Exotic. Best of the best. Fusion cores,blessed silver bullets, nuclear bombs, et. al.

* I was going to call this “S- Shot” and I choose to be less vulgar 🙂

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Simple, right? That is what BITS works to be.

No need to overthink what tools gobble-up what they use to run, how to keep the fires going. Determine if a tool ever runs out of uses and if that is after every use, every critical failure of use, multiple uses / failures thereof, or never!

I hope you take benefit from this synopsis in your own game designs. This is yet another page into my own compendium of game design reference, so expect to see design themes from here echoed in future work.

Cheers to all you do in the meantime ~

A big time commitment to any roleplaying game is almost always the combat.

Roll to hit, roll how much was hit, repeat.

While simple in process, this becomes a slog when characters in games have buckets of hit points (HP, the equivalent of life). Each mighty cleave of a sword or bullseye from a rifle does but a chip of damage from the HP block. Again. And again. And again.

Ew.

Others and I agree – fewer hit points makes for better play. One might even try to put the “hit” back into “hit points” 👀

Premise of Hits

HP represents how many hacks a character can take or effectively avoid to prevent their own demise. Depending on the type of game, 0 HP either means a character cannot prevent others from working their will on them (no fight left) or could mean they are dead (this time, the sword block is too slow, the swing finding mortal purchase).

How many hits a thing can take then can vary. You might have seen the videos of people about to fight, but one clip of the chin puts a fighter down. Remember Julius Caesar? He took over 40 (!!!) stab and slash wounds before finally going down.

Caesar aside, most combatants can only get in a bout for so long, minutes at most. This has been found out by the RPG community: A good rule of thumb is that a sturdy human being without special training can withstand about 3-4 hits before a ‘this-settles-it’ hit lands home.

The Old-School (OSR) RPGs hold this as fact: Fewer HP is better play. Whether that is some max HP of 12 or 20 for a player’s character, it undermines the hundreds of HP even moderate-level play in a game like Dungeons & Dragons can introduce.

Excessive, eh? Some solutions to high HP:

Crafting Better Dungeon HP

Professor Dungeon Master over at Dungeon Craft on YouTube introduces a great rule of thumb for D&D -type monster blocks:

Every attack that lands does 1 hit’s-worth of harm. Sword or fist, all the same. Criticals, heavy weapons, and especially high rolls (e.g. naturally in the top 25%) count as an additional hit. Spells do hits equal to the level of difficulty they are +1 (levels exist from 0 to 9).

As for HP, take a monster’s health, round to the tens-digit, and divide by 10 (minimum 1 HP). Thereby, a monster with 84 average HP can take 8 hits.

Professor Dungeon Master (minorly paraphrased)

This is a great quick-and-dirty way to reach the same conclusions of regular D&D combat, but only faster.

Assuming a group of four adventurers though, 8 HP still requires at least two rounds of combat with every adventurer landing a standard hit (8 HP / 4 hits-per-round = 2 rounds).

Can this be better?

BITS of HP

My own homebrew wraps as much as it can into the standard 1-2-3-4-6-10 scale of effectiveness.

Tier 1 characters can only take 1 and give 1 hit (and are easier to hit – that is a separate discussion). Tier 2 gives and takes 2 hits. Tier 6, 6 of each.

Player character weapons and armor also exist on this scale: Tier 1 does 1 hit’s-worth of harm (e.g. knives), tier 4 does 4 hits-of-harm (e.g. halberds, especially heavy weapons). Characters themselves have the ability to sustain ~7 hits of harm on average.

But what if players still want to roll their damage?

Layering on the HP

(The following is a thought exercise – I have yet to test in actual gameplay.)

Keeping the difficulty tiers of BITS, what if HP scaled by double or by 4s?

e.g.

This way the chaff of low-level minions can still be swept away, but more bossy characters can take a few blows before being made low.

When players strike, a success gives them 1 hit. When they roll damage, they get an extra hit for, say, every complete 5 or 10 points of damage rolled in the D&D fashion.

Players get to roll more of their dice, folks are rewarded for high rolls, and combat remains quick (but not so quick as to be a wash!).

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Simple reduction of HP, HP by tiers, or HP by scaling? Or just keep D&D -style massive blobs of hit points, why does this article even exist? 😜

I am curious: Tell me what you use for HP in play and share what you think could go better in the fictional combat of roleplaying games.

Anyways, stay tuned for from-the-field reports as I experiment with different systems. Cheers to your characters coming out on top!

A cornerstone addition for any fantasy or medieval roleplaying games is the trusty steed. Whether mounted by a knight or pulling the cart of 💩, if a game has swords, it is ripe to have equine to swing swords from.

Here’s how they get implemented in the BITS system, though the rules below are quite system-agnostic.

Basic Stats

Horses are a Tier 3 creature, meaning they have 3 hit points and are fairly difficult to hit and dodge (a 9+ roll to succeed against). However, unless it is a trained war horse, a horse should be unlikely to attack unless driven to, and that with disadvantage.

As for temperament, horses naturally avoid doing and receiving harm. Rather, eating and herding with other horses is the preference.

Mount Up

Being atop a horse automatically gives one a height advantage over other characters. Whether attacking or seeing over low cover, a mounted character has it.

However, the height comes at a price: A mounted character can be picked out from a crowd and has little (if any) cover themselves.

There is a bonus to speed though. Walking or galloping, horses give double the speed of a human for longer. E.g. instead of moving into the next area as a move, the horse can move into one area and then the next, or instead of ~10m run a horse may sprint ~100m.

If a horse suddenly stops (either from an obstacle or legs being shot out from under a rider), anyone mounted must suffer the consequences.

If walking or standing still, a d6 roll of 4-6 means the rider is fine. 1-3 means the rider is trapped under the beast and needs a Body BITS test to get out. A 1 also breaks the leg of the rider.

If galloping, roll d3. The result is how many 10s of meters the rider is thrown (e.g. 2 is 20 meters), with 3 damage for every 10 meters thrown.

For the number of those mounted, only one armored (or especially large) rider can be on a horse at a time. If unarmored, the horse can mount two at a time, even if one or both riders are injured.

Panic

What’s a horse without flared-nostril panic?

Horses must roll for panic if anything ever surprises them. These can inclusively be attacks (including surprise slaps to the behind), sudden visions of much and rapid activity, horrific scenes and smells, and loud noises.

A sample panic list, where failing a 7+ Insight BITS test sees the animal lose control:

1. Buck. 11+B BITS test to hold on.
2. Rear up on hind legs. 9+B BITS test to hold on.
3. Bolt. The horse gallops randomly d6 times. 7+B BITS test to hold on.
4. Shriek. All horses a room away (~10 meters) also panic.
5. Sudden stop. If not moving, the horse backs up d6 times (or stops when going into a wall or the area to the rear).
6. Nothing happens. After a start, the horse is controlled.

Chariots, Coaches, and Carts

Chariots are two-wheeled carts that need at least a driver and one horse to operate. They can be large enough to carry one or two passengers / archers / lancers with two or four horses, respectively.

Though lacking the height advantage of a mount, a chariot offers half-cover to those inside from at least the front if not the sides. War chariots can also include armor and bladed wheels.

Coaches are enclosed boxes that need a driver on the outside to work. Any number of horses can be used to pull a coach.

Those inside a coach have full cover but no height advantage. Those on top or driving have height advantages, but no cover. Coaches can be armored and even outfitted with weapons.

Carts are the basic of basic. No cover, and no height advantage unless standing on top. One, two, or four horses can draw carts, but so can mules, ox, and teams of goats (if the game is so inclined).

Other Considerations

War Horses – Can attack with hooves for 3 damage whether striking or kicking. May be armored and are much less likely to panic or panic badly (e.g. immune to any panic except physical injury). Can also charge and trample without impunity.

Charging – Get hit by a running horse, get knocked prone to the ground. Simple as that.

Trampling – d6 damage to be run over by a horse (average at 4). Worth rolling to see if a horse jumps over something first, but there’s always the risk of harm when being both prone and in a horse’s way.

Saddles / Packs – Any horse properly equipped can carry more gear than a person can. If a character in BITS can carry only 2 items naked, 4 to 6 items clothed, and between 6 to 10 in a pack, a horse can carry a minimum of 10 extra items that stay with the horse when equipped to do so.

Stirrups vs Bareback – An optional consideration. Stirrups help a rider stay mounted and leaves their hands virtually free. Bareback requires one hand in the mane of the horse if the rider doesn’t want to have a disadvantage to their mounting or moving. Not a recommended rule, but a historical acknowledgement of what is available.

Other Devices – Things like blinders could reduce panic chances from certain sources. Whips and lashes could force a horse to go faster. If ignoring the cruelty of some of these devices, this topic is far too granular for what BITS aims to abstract away.

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There it is: Horse mounts in BITS. Catering to a fantasy setting in this one, but westerns (like the very applicable Gunslinger in The West) or any setting with an equestrian-bent should use these rules for game inspiration.

Could this be extrapolated out to other kinds of animal riding? Dire wolves, bears, dragons? Of course! Though, attacks, temperaments, panic reactions, and other stats would need a bit of contextual tweaking, but that is the easy part!

What animals do you like to ride into battle? Is this ruleset missing anything (other than feeding [daily, and water, too!] and maintaining [horseshoes!] a mount)? Hit me up with your knowledge here – I am too naïve to know much else 🙃

Toodles and cheers.

Awhile ago I explored with you spells and magic systems.

Looking back, between modern D&D, the old-school revival (OSR), and a more free-form approach, that post was a bit… scattered 🙃

So I went back to the drawing board. I touched on a few changes in BITS in the two-year review, but I did even better: there now exists the sci-fantasy-trope As Above, So Below prototype.

The AASB two-pager project forced me to distill what magic can and ought to be in a Body-Insight-Thought-Specialty roleplaying game system.

With those efforts combined, it is time to reintroduce the magic in BITS in a general form fit for any BITS game (and your own homebrew too 😉).

A Special Kind of Threat

“Threat” is the common term of what to roll at or above to succeed at some tricky, dangerous, or failure-is-consequential action.

Every creature or being in a game has its own threat – an abstract capacity to enact its own will on others or to prevent others from acting on it. When rolling normally, that threat is what is rolled for.

Magic is different. Spells ignore the threat of the target (a person, place, or thing), instead rolling for the level of threat inherent in the spell itself. The effect is instantaneous on target, ignoring all defenses!

Trivial spell? Trivial roll. Bigger, badder magic? Bigger, badder numbers to roll for 😶

As is with most rolls, magic rolls get to add a BITS to the roll, specifically the Thought quality – the smarter, more forceful-of-will a caster is, the easier the use of their magic!

When using magic, roll for the threat of the magic, not the target. Add Thought to the roll.

DANGER!

Magic is dangerous. Spells are fickle, near as likely to burn the hand that casts than the target.

Early on, BITS settled to handle critical failure when rolling doubles under the threat number. (e.g. a 2 and 2 when the threat is 5+.)

Crit failures – regardless of what is being done – are always bad. When it comes to magic, such failure can be catastrophic 💀

When magic critically fails, the caster becomes the target. Whatever was going to happen happens in its opposite or causes harm, too.

Say a healing spell was meant to help an ally. A crit failure would harm the magician in equal amounts to what was supposed to heal, while the ally gets nothing.

Sometimes allies are not so lucky. Take a mage’s fireball spell, meant to immolate all in a nearby room before their friends rush in. Crit fail in the casting, and the room the mage is in fills with fire, setting ablaze friend and foe alike.

Summoning a creature from the ‘other side’ to fight alongside the party? The summoning happens, but the creature joins the opposition.

Magic is dangerous. Users are advised to proceed with caution!

Critical spell failure targets the caster and must harm or inconvenience them in proportion to the magic used.

What About Armor?

Many game systems require magicians to not wear any armor to be able to use magic. Sometimes this is a soft requirement (e.g. “magic can only be cast wearing lite or no armor”), sometimes this is hard (“mages cannot wear armor, full stop”).

To me, this is silly. BITS aims to be more practical and economic in its approach – by failures targeting the gear and pocketbooks of magicians!

On critical failures, a mage can be utterly wrecked. Only once, this is a painful outcome. Bad dice rolling failures again and again, magic becomes annoying.

So to encourage bigger, wilder magic use, a magician can channel a crit failure into anything that lacks a will that they are wearing or hold in their hands. When channeled, the magic effect doesn’t happen (e.g. a fireball does not explode), but the item that was channeled? Gone – turned to ash, dissolved to vapor, crumbled to dust.

The lesson here? Critical magic failure can be prevented, but at a cost. That cost comes in the form of the hard-won gear and materials a magic user has. Therefore, mage’s are encouraged to use their special powers while softly discouraged from investing too heavily in heavier, more expensive weapons and gadgets.

Magic users may choose to channel crit spell failures into what they wear or hold, the item chosen destroyed in the process to prevent the failure’s effects.

Tools of the Trade

Gear here to help magicians: scrolls, runes, tomes, icons, idols, fetishes, wands, scepters, staves.

These items come in +1, +2, +3, and more varieties like every other kind of item in BITS. Yet, instead of inflicting harm on another (e.g. 2 damage for a tier-2 sword), focusing gear adds to the rolls for magic in addition to Thought already added.

Some magic gear helps focus spells – add this gear’s value to magic rolls in addition to Thought.

Optional: Fields of Magic

This is a great way to segregate the kinds of magic a player might be able to rely on. If magic use is just a bit too powerful, restricting magic to fields of study or inheritance can make all the difference.

While these groupings can take virtually any form, a few examples (which could be further isolated by what foci they are allowed to use, how they improve their magic, and how they might increase their powers):

• The 6 distilled from D&D magic (D&D has unbalanced spells that I rebalanced during As Above, So Below‘s development – will make a post on it later).
  • Divinity – Spells involve blessing and cursing targets.
  • Energy – Spells involve the heating and cooling targets.
  • Form – Spells involve making something from nothing and change.
  • Life – Spells involve decaying and rejuvenating targets and the environment.
  • Mind – Spells involve knowing what targets know and bestowing ideas into others.
  • Sensorium – Spells involve the senses and illusions.
• Power (pure-magic) and Pyro (fire, natural forces) (inspired by the Souls games).
• Pact-making (devotion to angels or demons), Learned (from books or teachers), and Inherited (born with it).
• Item-only (spells are written or imbued – can only be used with the host item, perhaps only a few times too).

Buttress magic’s power by guard-railing its use via who uses what kinds of magic magic and how.

Making Magic

Magic by any stretch of the imagination is chaotic, and chaos is everything.

That in mind, no list of spells or rituals could be as encompassing as a player’s imagination, or the situations one encounters while playing.

For BITS, refer to this handy table of the minimal threat appropriate for different spells (the Game Moderator ultimately will need to make a decision here, so treat this as a tool and starting place in that verdict). Using the largest threat for what is wanted to be done:

Wrap Up

Magic in BITS is quite powerful and quite dangerous – usually to the target, but could be to the caster too.

Adding the user’s Thought quality along with any foci support, a magician has the flexibility to fulfill their role in any situation during play.

Magic spells are unbounded in BITS play while worthy of the utmost respect, just as is a player’s imagination.

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BITS is such a thorough system – easy to understand, fast to play, capable of being scaled up or down in complexity, modular enough to plug-and-play virtually any theme or IP…

I am just so proud of where this has come 😍

Tell me your thoughts. Favorite magic system out there BITS could assimilate? Things you would like to do not yet covered in BITS?

I am all ears and all thanks – take care, witches and wizards aplenty! Cheers to your play~